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msmash
on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:43AM
from the up-next dept.

Sony's PlayStation 3 sales stand at around 80 million -- which means its successor, the current gen PlayStation 4, will soon surpass it. From a report: The Japanese electronics giant sold 9 million PlayStation 4 consoles from October through December, it said on Friday in its latest quarterly earnings report. Sales for the console were at 67.5 million as of Sept. 30 2017, according to Sony's previous quarterly earnings report, bringing the total to 76.5 million. The PlayStation 2 remains Sony's best-selling console, with over 150 million units sold. These figures come days after Nintendo on Wednesday revealed the Switch, released last March, is up to 14.8 million in sales. Sales of Microsoft's Xbox One are estimated by VGChartz to be around 36 million.

Must have been one manufactured in the first few batches. I bought my GameCube when it was released in Canada and it was made in Japan. I also bought my Wii on launch day in Canada, but they were already being made in China by that point.

We have a PS3 and a PS4 working side-by-side in our HT setup. The PS3 is rock-solid reliable, does normal things when controlled by the remote. Browses our DLNA server properly.

The PS4 locks up and won't connect with PS4 remotes. Has to be manually switched on before our Harmony remote can talk to it (gee, thanks Sony!). Calls every single show on the DLNA server the same title - good luck finding your episode. The wife and kids will barely touch it.

And also, I rewrote Sony's crap DLNA player add-on to make it not show the episode names (something the PS3 and other DLNA clients do fine).

And I wrote the Sony spec that says that no 3rd party device can turn on the PS4 from Bluetooth.

Yeah, those must be my fault.

As far as playing games, I haven't seen anything to date that looked or worked better than the PS3. And it doesn't play our library of PS3 games - at least not natively. I've heard that there's a remote PS3 option f

Sony HATES multiple formats like FLAC/MP3/AAC etc. They do everything they can to make their own. If they cant, they pick only one and run with it. They are still too-often gadget makers and not computer makers. They dont even make PCs anymore, and when they did they were ham-fisted as hell about it. Sony is a gadget company, they dont understand 'empowering the user' in any way. They think of the device first, the user second.

I have to agree with this list (except I haven't bought Dragon Quest yet, it's on the list). Also, picked up FF XV and FF XII remake for PS4. Uncharted 4 is awesome and I'm looking forward to Last of Us 2. The Lego games are the favs for the kids. I still have not done the whole PS4 online thing, but the console has been pretty solid without it.

Yeah, I've been playing through the Uncharted pack (1-3), and then will tackle Uncharted 4. Fantastic franchise. Also purchased FF X and X-2, and FF XII. I never ended up playing Last of Us (yes, I know how good it's supposed to be), so I'll need to pick that up before I play Last of Us 2.

Dragon Quest Builders is essentially a direct Minecraft ripoff, but Dragon Quest themed, and with a stronger narrative structure, which is a bit nice if you feel Minecraft to be a bit aimless. I've found it to be a lot

And if Sony would continue to manufacture PS2 I would still buy one, if only to replace my broken one and play the substantial number of PS2 and PS1 games I have in the attic. It was a good system with a great game library.

Playstation controller was way better than Nintendo 64 controller. The grip was more ergonomic, and the buttons had nice round smooth edges so you could slide your finger from one to the other easily, which made combos a hell of a lot easier to execute in fighting games on PS2 vs N64.

The one thing worse about the PlayStation 2 is the latency of the main program storage. A DVD-ROM at 5 MB/s with seek times in the hundreds of milliseconds can't keep up with an SSD at double digit MB/s with seek times in single-digit microseconds.

Do you mean the slim? You don't want that one either, it has zero backwards compatibility with the PS2.

The one you want is the CECHA version, that's the Deluxe launch model with both of the PS2's Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer as well as WiFi, a card reader for MemoryStick, SD and CompactFlashcards and 4 USB ports.

The CECHB launch version has the same compatibility but has only 2 USB ports, no card reader for Compact flash, memory stick and SD cards and NO WiFi! Which means you cannot use Ad-hoc

The PS2 was an awesome console with the best game library. My kids do just about everything with the PS3, but recently talked me into reconnecting my old PS2 because the PS3 kept crashing (both of my PS3's have been unstable crashing monsters from the beginning when they were brand new); but I discovered that the DVD drive died. Fortunately, a local used game store had one, so I bought it for about $50.

After my kids were done it, I played some of my old games. It was at that point that I realized the bes

Mostly just a single retail game, and several digital-only per month. They say 2 PS4 games a month, but many PS3 or Vita indies are cross-buy so you also get the PS4 version.

That said I'm not really interested in most of the game, but it's a good way to try out indies I'd otherwise pass up. Rocket League, in particular, was a PS+ game at its launch and got the game into a lot of people hands and helped it gain popularity.

Microsoft's newer game pass is a better deal. It's $10/month and lets you play the game

Emulation is NOT a grey area in the USA. Its a completely legal activity under copyright law. (for the purposes of interoperability and backup). See also *Sony V Universal*, the 'betamax' case. A backup is a backup is a backup, it doesnt matter where it came from. If you own the cart/disc, you have every legal right to a backup of that ROM.

Do you have to install 50 GB of data to play PS4 games? We got an Xbox One S to play 4k movies and the little ones make my gaming time rare, but for the few games I have played so far on there, each needed to download 50-100 GB on the drive before I could play. Consoles sure ain't what they used to be... sure its prettier than when everything ran off disc, but it really is just a slow gaming PC in a box that looks nice under the TV. Also weird, it plays the movies just fine, but the capability to play th

Every PS4 game does fully copy itself to the console. However, unlike the XBOne, Sony has a patented partial install that puts just the startup files on the HDD, and streams the rest over as you play.

The way I heard the streaming works is that when loading and a file isn't on the HDD, it will read the file off the disk, and copy the file onto the HDD at the same time. It will also continue the copy when the system is in it's standby mode.

Depends on the game. I think the biggest I've seen is about 60GB, with MMO's being real space hogs. Even though the PS4 now supports playing games from external storage, don't buy a PS4 with less than 2TB of storage.

If you buy games on Disc, it installs the game to the HDD just like a PC would. (And essentially the PS4 is a FreeBSD PC with games other than Nethack to play) You still need the disc to start it up though, that's to prevent one guy from sharing his disc with all his friends.